USB to SATA?

[alpha9097]

Hello.

My laptop's HD is damaged (shows 303 and 305 error in hard disk test).Can I use a USB (32gb usb3.0 sandisk) in the HD slot and use as an SSD, if I get all the necessary connectors to do so. If so what are the needed connectors?will a sata male to usb female work?

HP Pavilion DV6-6000se
6gb ram
750gb damaged hd
1.8ghz

 

[CountMike]

No, you can't, not easily anyway. You can get an SATA to USB adapter like this https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Dual-USB-2-0-to-SATA-15-7-Pin-Data-and-Power-Cable-Adapter-For-2/32500177723.html?spm=2114.40010508.4.98.fYLN1C to access your files. As far as I know there is no adapter for other way around, USB stick to SATA port in a computer.
If you don't have to use Windows you can always use a live Linux with persistence on a USB stick. A Linux like Mint for instance is very good thing to run from USB.
You can find most any Linux here: https://distrowatch.com/
http://www.techspot.com/downloads/5488-linuxlive-usb-creator.html can do that from any windows computer.

 

[alpha9097]

No, you can't, not easily anyway. You can get an SATA to USB adapter like this https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Dual-USB-2-0-to-SATA-15-7-Pin-Data-and-Power-Cable-Adapter-For-2/32500177723.html?spm=2114.40010508.4.98.fYLN1C to access your files. As far as I know there is no adapter for other way around, USB stick to SATA port in a computer.
If you don't have to use Windows you can always use a live Linux with persistence on a USB stick. A Linux like Mint for instance is very good thing to run from USB.
You can find most any Linux here: https://distrowatch.com/
http://www.techspot.com/downloads/5488-linuxlive-usb-creator.html can do that from any windows computer.

Thanks

I am using Linux Mint 17.1 at the moment, a live version of it...
somehow cant get to boot an installed version of it...
bad luck

 

[CountMike]

Well, if HDD is damaged than no wander it wouldn't install on it. It may help if you can find where bad sectors are on HDD and partition it around them so they are in unpartitioned space.

 

[alpha9097]

Well, if HDD is damaged than no wander it wouldn't install on it. It may help if you can find where bad sectors are on HDD and partition it around them so they are in unpartitioned space.

i installed on another usb (but it would boot)
luckily, i was able to recover the data from the drive